Molten rock above the surface of the Earth.

What category of rocks makes up about 75% of the rocks found on Earth's Surface?

What category of rocks are the most common rocks found on terrestrial planets in our solar system?

Rock type formed when molten hot material (magma or lava) cools and solidifies.

Rock type formed when rocks are changed from their original form by immense heat or pressure.

Rock type formed when pieces of minerals, other rocks, or organic materials are compacted and cemented together.

The natural process of rock and soil material being worn away.

The process of moving rocks and soil by wind or water from one location to another.

Natural processes that can lead to the formation of sedimentary rocks.

Natural processes that can lead to the formation of igneous rocks.

Natural processes that can lead to the formation of metamorphic rocks.

Natural processes that can lead to the creation and deposition of sediments.

Describes the layer of gasses surrounding the Earth and is divided into sections.

The frozen part of the hydrosphere.

Composed of all the living organisms on the planet.

Describes all the rocks, minerals and molten magma found on or in the Earth.

Describes all the water on Earth – including liquid water (oceans, etc.) and vapor (precipitation).

The accumulation or laying down of matter by a natural process.

Which of the following are characteristics used to classify matter as minerals?

A rocky material that makes up the thickest and least dense part of earth's crust.

A rocky material that makes up the thinnest and most dense part of earth's crust.

The lower part of the upper mantle that exhibits plastic (flowing) properties on which the continents move.

The outermost layer of Earth's surface which is rocky and solid and includes the rigid part of the upper mantle.

The thickest layer of Earth, under the crust, in which plate movement is generated.

The layer inside Earth between the mantle and inner core which is made up mostly of molten iron and nickel.

The innermost layer of the earth made of solid iron and nickel.

What type of plate boundary is represented by this image?

What type of plate boundary is represented by this image?

What type of plate boundary is represented by this image?

Relatively cooler rock from higher in the mantle slowly sinks toward the mantle. As the warmer material rises, it also cools, eventually pushed aside by warmer rising material and sinking back toward the core.

The action or process in plate tectonics of the edge of one crustal plate descending below the edge of another.

An area on Earth over a mantle plume or an area under the rocky outer layer of Earth, called the crust, where magma is hotter than surrounding magma.

A seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics along a divergent boundary.

Which is the most common and second most common element found in Earth's Crust?

The majority of minerals found in Earth's solar system are classified as which of the following?

4 smaller inner planets in our solar system that have a solid and rocky surfaces, with dense metallic cores.

4 larger outer planets in our solar system that have gaseous compositions or ice compositions and small, molten rock cores.

Which of the following planetary surface feature is represented at location A?

Which of the following planetary surface feature is represented at location B?

Which three terrestrial planets have all of the following layers: inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?

Which two Jovian Planets have diameters that are the closest in size?

Which two Terrestrial Planets have diameters that are the closest in size?

Which layers do not exist on any of the Jovian planets?

Raw materials or minerals that come from a particular part of the world where conflict is occurring and affects the mining and trading of those materials.

Describes how a mineral reflects light. The terms metallic and nonmetallic describe the basic types of this mineral characteristic.

The color of the powdered mineral, which is usually more useful for identification than the color of the whole mineral sample. Rubbing the mineral on a plate will produce this characteristic.

The way in which a mineral breaks along smooth flat planes. These breaks occur along planes of weakness in the mineral's structure. However, if a mineral breaks along an irregular surface, it does not have this characteristic.

This category of igneous rocks are formed on the surface of the Earth from lava, which is magma that has emerged from underground.

This category of igneous rocks are formed from magma that cools and solidifies within the crust of the planet.

What characteristic of the material in Earth's geosphere is the reason for the layers?

Which of these planetary surface features is a result of plate tectonics?

Which plate boundary is creating new crust?

Which plate boundary involves the subduction of oceanic crust under continental crust?

Which statements about seismic waves is true? (Mark all that apply)

Which layer of the geosphere is believed to be the source of Earth's protective magnetic field?

Which layers of the geosphere are liquid? (Mark all that apply)